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as in sick
affected with nausea after eating the last four pieces of the two-week-old pizza, he was feeling a little nauseous

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Recent Examples of nauseous And feeling nauseous from a few minutes of passenger princess phone tasks straight-up sucks. Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024 Ganondorf possesses Zelda’s body in 2006’s Twilight Princess, turning her fair skin a nauseous, seafoam green. Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024 Researchers indicate that within one hour of drinking it, people may feel nauseous, vomit, and have stomach pain. Sherri Gordon, Health, 8 Sep. 2024 Not long after her mom's nudge, India began feeling nauseous and missed her period. Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nauseous
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Adjective
  • Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock alum Tracy Morgan caused a temporary delay at Monday night's NBA game between the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat after the actor and comedian got sick in his courtside seat during the second half, and later sharing an update on his condition from a hospital bed.
    EW.com, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Nearly 95 people got sick during a norovirus outbreak on a Holland America Line ship, the cruise line’s fourth this year.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Continue reading … ‘PRO-CRIMINAL’ – Blue state sheriff unloads on 'disgusting' bill targeting the right to self-defense.
    Fox News, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The world is a disgusting and miserable place, and Tory Lanez is eager to exploit it.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • To have hate at such a young age for another student is awful.
    Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But against lefties, while hitting from the righty batter's box, Cabrera has been downright awful, with a .562 OPS and anemic .209 batting average in 187 career plate appearances.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • So too does the actual action, which moves from cartoonishly fun to grim and queasy with nary a step in between.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The mood conjured by Gray Alys and Boyce’s journey is a queasy one, in keeping with the hybrid nature of the setting.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This is really happening and these horrible things are happening and that this person doesn't want to be happening.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The tech giant had a horrible week, off nearly 11% in the period despite Friday’s relief bounce.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • It was announced shortly before Feb. 14, which marked seven years since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland and as our newspapers remain filled with tragic and preventable homicides caused by irresponsible gun owners, this move is sickening.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2025
  • There’s a sickening, satisfying weight behind each strike here, especially with the sprays of blood when Matt repeatedly throws one goon against the wobbling refrigerator.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The 24-year-old displayed all of the good, the bad and the ugly in a 25-game stretch when called up to the majors last season when starting catcher Gabriel Moreno was injured.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Imagine the classic tale The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen — only, in this version, the ugly duckling doesn’t mature into a beautiful swan.
    Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Wild played a hideous third period, and the Blues got two more goals from Kyrou.
    Michael Russo, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Just to give one small example: early on in the movie Bernice, who spends most of the story bedridden watching shopping channels, spots a hideous piece of clothing being advertised on television.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Nauseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nauseous. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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